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Vol. 99, No. 84
Graduation 2008
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and a look ahead
for North, Central
Right, Amelia Haynes bites her nails in anticipation
as she looks over the names of her fellow graduat¬
ing classmates during the Central Forsyth High
School graduation ceremony Saturday morning at
the Cumming Fairgrounds. Below, a sea of gradu¬
ates clap and yell for the salutatorian during the
ceremony.
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Many Forsyth homeowners feel flood plain pain
Extra effort required to alleviate
elevation oversight on FEMA maps
By Jennifer Sami
Staff Writer
Bill Leonard is one of many
Forsyth County homeowners who have
taken steps to prove their property is
not in a flood plain.
The effort, which they undertook in
order to avoid having to pay flood
insurance, came about as a result of the
Federal Emergency Management
Agency’s nationwide initiative to
update Hood plain maps.
“1 knew, given where my house sits
on the property, that there’s absolutely
no way the property could be in the
way of any flood damage at all,”
Leonard said. “But FEMA doesn’t
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send anyone out there to look at it, so
it’s up to you to submit information to
them to prove your case.”
There are no new flood plain areas
in the digital maps, which took effect
for Forsyth County on Sept. 19, 2007,
but they do indicate specific properties
that lie in a flood plain.
That new technology, in turn, has
made it easier for lenders to see which
properties are at risk. In response,
many mortgage companies have
required homeowners to carry flood
insurance, which can cost more than
$1,000 annually.
See FLOOD, Page 2A
INDEX
Abby............ 5A
Classifieds.. 15B
Deaths........ 2A
Horoscope, SA
Legals.......... 3B
Opinion...... 6A
Sports.......... IB
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Local
Forsyth Academy
recognizes
graduates.
Page3A
Photos/Emily Saunders
Heather Denny, left, retouches her
makeup as her twin sister, Jessica
Denny, giggles in the foreground
moments before the start of the
North Forsyth High School gradua¬
tion ceremony Friday night at the
Cumming Fairgrounds. Below, facul¬
ty member Jane Osborne makes
her way up the stairs as the rain
starts pouring down before the start
of the ceremony.
Opinion
Columnist Mel Copen
shares his perspective
of Memorial Day.
Page7A
Season
‘off to
a good,
safe start’
Holiday weekend
passes quietly
By Frank Reddy
Staff Writer
Wayne and Christy Wheeler of Forsyth
County both got Monday off for Memorial
Day. Problem is, one wanted to go shop¬
ping and the other fishing.
“She’s all riled up about Avenue
Forsyth, and I don’t care much for follow¬
ing her around watching her try on blue
jeans,” Wayne Wheeler said.
But the couple, who got married two
years ago, found an amiable solution.
“We’re at the point where we don’t got
to do every little thing together,” said
Wheeler, adding that approach “works out
for the both of us.”
So while the husband spent the day
fishing for striped bass on Lake Lanier, the
wife went with friends to The Avenue
Forsyth, a new 500,000-square-foot out¬
door mall on Peachtree Parkway.
Launching his boat at Six Mile Creek
park, Wayne Wheeler called his Memorial
Day angling a success, noting “there’s some
decent fishing today.”
The weather — lot of sun and little rain
— likely added to the ideal conditions over
what authorities were describing Tuesday
as a quiet and safe holiday weekend on the
lake and area roads.
The Department of Natural Resources
reported four boating incidents over the
weekend, said spokeswoman Robin Hill.
Two people were hurt, but neither had seri¬
ous injuries. Five lake-goers were cited for
boating under the influence.
Hill said lake attendance was down
from last year’s Memorial Day weekend,
which typically signals the start of summer
on Lanier.
Local law enforcement officials also
said the holiday weekend was “very quiet.”
Capt. Frank Huggins of the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia State
Patrol Cumming Post spokeswoman Robin
Stone both said there were no fatalities and
few wrecks on Forsyth Count)' roads during
the 78-hour holiday period.
Huggins said there 23 wrecks in the
county, only two of which resulted in
injuries, both minor.
See SEASON, Page 2A
Possible Storms
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ill, VII
High in the mid-8()s.
Low in the mid-60s.
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Changes at South target success
Tom Slaughter
holds a survey
map as he
looks out on a
neighboring
house that
stands between
his home and
the creek that
FEMA says
poses a flood
risk to his
house, which
stands at least
30 feet above
the creek.
File photo
LAKE LANIER LEVELS
Date Level
May 22 1057.75 ft
May 23 1057.76 ft
May 24 1057.80 ft
May 25 1057.79 ft
Full 1071.00 ft